Yearly Archives: 2011

This blog first appeared on the Bradford University School of Management blog. Standing in a queue for tickets at the Edinburgh Festival last week, my mobile kept on ringing. Waiting to go in to see Jonathan Agnew at the Edinburgh Book Festival, the same happened. What were both journalists and our PR agency continually calling

This post also appeared as a guest article on the Chartered Management Institute’s blog and on the Bradford University School of Management blog. A potential client asked me to provide some recommendations for the performance measurement by main board members of a newly appointed operating unit managing director. It would be fairly simple, one would

This post also appeared as a guest article on the Chartered Management Institute’s blog and on the Bradford School of Management blog Research by the Forum of Private Business has found that most of their members are not investing in management skills, preferring to “teach themselves” or take informal advice or training. This is largely